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Press Releases
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Ecological Trends and Africa's Future
If current population and consumption trends continue, Africa’s Ecological Footprint (a measure of its demand on nature) will exceed its biocapacity within the next twenty years, according to a publication to be released by Global Footprint Network on Monday, October 19. A number of countries, including Senegal, Kenya and Tanzania, are set to reach that threshold in less than five years. (more...)
Global Footprint Network, Oakland, CA, October 16, 2009
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Global Footprint Network Media Backgrounder
Learn about the Ecological Footprint, what we do and our key findings
Global Footprint Network, Oakland, CA,
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Sept 25: Today we go into ecological overdraft
We all know nature doesn’t do bailouts. Yet on September 25, humanity will have demanded all the ecological services – from filtering CO2 to producing the raw materials for food – that nature can provide this year, according to data from Global Footprint Network, a research organization that measures how much nature we have, how much we use, and who uses what. (more...)
Global Footprint Network, Oakland, CA, September 18, 2009
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Humanity’s Growing Demand on Nature Approaching Critical Threshold
At the current rate humanity is using natural resources and producing waste, by the early 2030s we will require the resources of two planets to meet our needs, (more...)
Global Footprint Network, Oakland, CA, October 29, 2008
In The News
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State of the Earth 2010
There are now 6.8 billion people on the planet. Together, we consume 1.4 Earths' worth of resources per year.
National Geographic, New York, September 01, 2009
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Ecological creditors and debtors
Article by Mathis Wackernagel in United Nations Environmental Programme policy magazine discusses a new context for recognizing natural capital as a core national asset.
UNEP Environment and Poverty Times, , August 01, 2009
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Securing human development in a resource-constrained world
The newsletter of the OECD's Development Assistance Committee (DAC) invited Mathis Wackernagel Ph.D., co-founder of the Ecological Footprint and President of the Global Footprint Network, to share his views on what we should be thinking about as we prepare for the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP15) in Copenhagen, 7-18 December 2009.
OECD DACnews, , October 01, 2009
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Happy Costa Ricans top global list for the good life
Costa Rica, the country of fewer than 5m people sandwiched between Panama and Nicaragua, tops a new global ranking for combining a happy and long life with limited environmental degradation.
Financial Times, London, July 04, 2009
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The Happy Planet Index
We’ve written before about alternative measures to gross domestic product. These are generally attempts to take into account how happy, healthy and environmentally friendly a nation is, not just how much it produces in goods and services.
New York Times, USA, July 06, 2009
Overshoot In The News
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Letting a thousand flowers wither
SEEKING to alleviate poverty, reduce world hunger and protect biodiversity sounds, to your correspondent’s ears, like something a Miss World hopeful might have pledged in the 1980s. In fact, it was what a professor of soil quality at a lesser-known university in the Netherlands promised to a scientific conference that concluded on October 16th.
The Economist, London, October 20, 2009
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G.D.P. R.I.P.
G.D.P. is one measure of national income, of how much wealth Americans make, and it’s a deeply foolish indicator of how the economy is doing. It ought to join buggy whips and VCRs on the dust-heap of history.
New York Times, New York, August 09, 2009
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A Timely Reminder of the Real Limits to Growth
It has been more than 30 years since a groundbreaking book predicted that if growth continued unchecked, the Earth’s ecological systems would be overwhelmed within a century. The latest study from an international team of scientists should serve as an eleventh-hour warning that cannot be ignored. By Bill McKibben
Yale Environment 360, New Haven, Conn., October 01, 2009
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The Other Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis in Global Land Use
As the international community focuses on climate change as the great challenge of our era, it is ignoring another looming problem — the global crisis in land use.
Yale Environment 360, New Haven, Conn., October 05, 2009
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Boiling the Frog
Is America on its way to becoming a boiled frog? The hypothetical boiled frog is a useful metaphor for a very real problem: the difficulty of responding to disasters that creep up on you a bit at a time. And right now, both the economic and the environmental frogs are sitting still while the water gets hotter.
The New York Times, New York, July 12, 2009
Coverage in Other Languages
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La Huella de Goldfinger
Caretas, Lima, Peru, July 09, 2009
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A demanda e a oferta do capital natural renovável
Desafios, Brasília, Brazil, April 30, 2009
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Recursos de um planeta finito
Desafios, Brasília, Brazil, April 30, 2009
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Leben auf zu grossem Fuss
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (New Zuricher Newspaper), Zurich, Switzerland, February 03, 2008
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Es droht der ökologische Bankrott
Beobachter Kompakt, , March 01, 2008